inspired by henry david thoreau's hut at walden pond. Translated as a tool for our time tuned to planet earth. A minimum prototype that adjusts to its environment in the sense that a tree does, ie autonomous energy, info, water+food, integrated structure, environmental systems with louvre skins that respond via sensors to temperature, wind, moisture and light.
'..THIS FRAME SO SLIGHTLY CLAD, WAS A SORT OF CRYSTALLISATION AROUND ME..'
Thoreau.

Friday, 31 March 2017

Wonderful to have the click-raft at INEX trade show Auckland, together with the beautiful Obodo timber insulated cassette panel, thin skin PSP polycarbonate panel, samples from Colour Steel and plenty of images of projects built and in progress - a good opportunity for people to see it up close. Many thanks to Mathew Hay for storing and supplying it to site, to Yusef and his wonderful student army for on-site assembly and Heidi from PrefabNZ and Vikram from Makers - what a fabulous team!

Saturday, 18 March 2017

weekends are great for dreaming and sketching...
click-raft was always meant as a vehicle for exploring things differently, testing ideas that have been bubbling away in the background, waiting for the right moment to emerge...

Friday, 3 March 2017

CMA+U with Makers and PTL structural engineers are full steam ahead on the rapid design, fabrication and assembly of a click-raft laboratory office pod for Callaghan Innovation at their Gracefield campus. The structure is a double span click-raft of 20m2 clad with insulated plywood cassettes and polycarbonate panels, supported on a minimal black steel frame to maximise space below and to provide office workspace for six researchers within the new pod which also provides a good overview of the laboratory space below.

looks like a great year ahead with plenty on the books. We're very excited to have several projects at various design stages while others are gearing up for fabrication in the Makers factory and assembly on site. From 10m2 backyard beauties or larger home additions and whole houses to even a laboratory control pod for Callaghan Innovation. This year will see many of these realised on the ground. We also plan to launch the C-10 flat-pack early this year, so watch this space. Bring on the wonders of the PrefabNZ step change!http://www.prefabnz.com/News/Click-raftOrders2017

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Background

How should we dwell on planet earth? If a computer can be made for $100 (think how absurd this would have sounded 20 years ago) - then why not a building?

It is time to drag architecture kicking and screaming into being a super inexpensive enabling tool. A device that is in-tune with our fragile planet!

The CLICK-RAFT is an inexpensive fabrication architecture – inspired by Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond, the citroen TPV, and lego. Click-Leaf architecture is a playful open system which utilizes the qualities of CNC cut plywood in click-leaf’s and click-beam’s to form a lattice of structure/networks assembled from standard panels which can be quickly ‘clicked’ together to form floor, wall, and roof click-rafts in different configurations

Click-leaf’s are assembled into Y-frame pairs and clicked into click-beam’s which together integrate structure, cladding, power/data networks, plumbing, energy, water systems, storage and furniture within the weave of the plywood structure.

The system’s flexibility offers many alternative open ended configurations to enable user/builder to respond to site specific conditions. Construction is generated by an assemblage of click-components which can be tuned on site – engaging user input, imagination, and exploration.